Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes & Sayings
32 most famous Jhumpa Lahiri quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 57 year old American author born on Jul 11, 1967.
“He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.”
“Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.”
“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”
“I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”
“On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.”
“My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.”
“This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.”
“When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.”
“I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.”
“I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.”
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